Police last week arrested a 31-year-old Queens, N.Y. woman by warrant in connection with felony-level risk of injury charges that stem from a five-year-old incident.
According to a police report, the woman turned herself in to New Canaan Police at about 7:11 a.m. on Sept. 30 on a paperless re-arrest warrant issued after she failed to appear in court for an incident reported to local authorities in 2019.
Connecticut Judicial Branch records show that she’d been charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child, interfering with an officer, second-degree breach of peace, possession of less than .5 ounces of marijuana and motor vehicle charges.
Under state law, a person is guilty of risk of injury if he or she “wilfully or unlawfully causes or permits any child under the age of sixteen years to be placed in such a situation that the life or limb of such child is endangered, the health of such child is likely to be injured or the morals of such child are likely to be impaired, or does any act likely to impair the health or morals of any such child.”
The woman was held on $30,000—later reduced to $5,000—and scheduled to appear the same day in state Superior Court. Records show she’s still being held and is now scheduled for arraignment Oct. 21.
She’s being represented by the public defender, the records show.
More information can be found here on the NCPD website.